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Strigosella africana
Also called African Stock, Turkish Mustard, African Adder's Mouth, African Rocket
African mustard is a low, spreading annual in the cabbage family, with pink to lavender flowers and long seed pods. It is a species native from the Mediterranean through Central Asia to India, and it has become invasive in parts of western North America.
Strigosella africana, or African mustard, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is an annual plant which ranges from the Mediterranean Basin through western and Central Asia, the Caucasus, Ukraine, southern and Eastern European Russia, and Mongolia to India and China. It has naturalized elsewhere, including much of western North America and parts of France, Central Europe, and Argentina. It is invasive in Nevada and Utah.
It is an annual herb growing in a prostrate patch or clump with stiff, furry stems up to half a meter long. The mustardlike flowers are pink to lavender and yield siliques up to 6 centimeters long.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Strigosella africana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
